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    Critical Frequency: A Brand New Way of Looking At Language Exposure

    October 21, 2010
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    Critical Frequency: A Brand New Way of Looking At Language Exposure

    “Use it or lose it.” ~ Originator Unknown To Me “If I do not practice for a day, I know it. If I do not practice for two days, my wife knows it. If I do not practice for three days, my audience knows it.” ~ Vladimir Horowitz I have a hunch. I don’t have proof yet. That’s why...

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    Language Is Friendship and Familiarity

    September 3, 2010
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    A language is a person. Of course, it’s not a real person. You can’t see or touch Japanese. But she exists. She exists just like Harry Potter exists. You don’t learn a language, you get used to it. When someone is used to something, what do we call them? We call them an “expert”, we say they’re “good at”...

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    Continual Questioning

    August 30, 2010
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    In a lot of personal development literature, they say that asking good questions helps us get good answers. Here are some you can ask yourself continually: Belief What if I were Japanese? What if I had been born and raised in Japan? What if I were Jared in The Pretender and I had to fool people into believing I was Japanese,...

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    Identity and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

    August 27, 2010
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    “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” ~ Muhammad Ali Pretend you are Japanese. Tell yourself you are Japanese. Who you think you are matters more than who you actually are. Who you actually are only describes your immediate present position (P) — the sum of all your previous direction vectors. But who...

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    SRS Is the Intellectual Equivalent of a Video Game “Save Point”

    August 21, 2010
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    Over the years, some amazing comments have been left here at AJATT. But they get lost in the fog of posts quite easily. All-Star Comments is a segment where I share the best of the best. Today’s comment is from a heartbreaker who goes by the monicker “SRS Addict”. The original post was about using the SRS to remember...

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    Probability Over Certainty, Or: Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Immersion, I Learned from the Miller-Rabin Primality Test

    August 15, 2010
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    “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can.” ~ Sydney Smith When I first came to Japan, I hated how people wouldn’t take a stand. In the West, you’re taught that you have to have an opinion and it has to be a strong one, and if...

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